“In his singular, unsung way, {he} defanged and healed one of the potentially greatest controversies of the time.”
— about school desegregation,written by historian Conrad Black in his biography of this President

“There has been more change in the structure of American public school education {during his Administration} than in the past 100 years.”
— attributed to a 19XX memo by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, sociologist and Senator (D-NY)

“Probably more new regulation was imposed on the economy during the {his} administration than in any other presidency since the New Deal.
— conservative economist Herbert Stein, Presidential Economics: The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Clinton, 1994, page 190.

{During his administration} 8 new independent regulatory agencies and 8 new agencies within the executive branch were created. In addition, 13 existing independent agencies, and 22 executive branch agencies, were substantially reformed and strengthened during these years. It represented a vast expansion and centralization of government power, penetrating local and remote reaches of the private economy.
— “The Rise of Environmentalism and the New Regulation“, Steven Hayward, Elizabeth Fowler, and Laura Steadman, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 4 April 2000